US Military Deploys Robot Dogs To Guard Air Force Base

https://futurism.com ^ | SEPTEMBER 8 2020 | Undogged Doggos

[RomanSoldier19]

The Air Force deployed four-legged “robot dogs” to defend its perimeters during a recent field test, The Drive reports.

The “robot dogs” the Air Force was testing are called Vision 60 and were built by Ghost Robotics, and they look a bit like the villains in the “Metalhead” episode of “Black Mirror.” They’re designed to conduct remote inspection, surveillance, or mapping missions, as The Drive reports, and could be used to patrol perimeters at air bases as well.

“Strategic partners can build solution-specific [Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicles] for virtually any use-case with their choice of sensors, radios and even size the robot to suit specific requirements by licensing our reference designs,” according to Ghost Robotics’ website.

[RomanSoldier19]

not from the report:

[EEGator]

Sounds cost efficient.
German Shepherds are what, 20 million a pop?...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

[cloudmountain]

Do these robotic dogs need to be oiled every so often?
Are there OILY dog bones for them?

I do like Ben Cumberbatch!

[blueunicorn6]

Who’s a good boy!

Who needs a belly scratch?

[P.O.E.]

While the enemy plays checkers, K-9 is playing chess

[M Kehoe]

Four years from January 2021, Skynet becomes self aware.

Anybody got a 40 watt plasma rifle for sale?

5.56mm

[nuconvert]

haha

[ProtectOurFreedom]

[Pocketdoor]

Muffit III’s????

[Paladin2]

THAT’s a pretty BIG dog...

[foldspace]

I'm sure we've all seen this one.

New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)

Disclaimer: Yes, this is CGI. Just give us a couple more years...

[SuperLuminal]

The doggies are going to cause havoc with our telephone poles and fire hydrants...

[Thank You Rush]

Maybe soon we’ll see robotic fighters ala the Dale Brown series of books. We need them now to clean the streets of the mobs! Of course, they were powered by robotics with fighters suited up inside but hey - who says it can’t work?

[Pocketdoor]

Muffit II was a robotic dog thing on the orginal Battlestar Galatica (1978)
Pretty cute, played by a chimpanzee.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=muffit+battlestar+galactica

[Rebelbase]

A real dog can smell a bazillion times better than a robot dog. Sometimes that’s what saves one’s bacon.

[Rebelbase]

[Rebelbase]

I'm certain this one still needs work.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Technology is 20 years ahead of what we think it is. This is probably being done and more.

[Clay Moore]

Robots always work out so well in the movies!